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purgation

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aginoprtuStarts with PEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

Word origin

From Middle English purgacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman purgacion, itself borrowed from Latin pūrgātiō; equivalent to purge + -ation.

Used in a sentence

  • Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…].
  • William evidently does not have the appreciation for women that Hildegard exhibits, yet he does not consider their monthly purgations to be a source of evil.
  • An intriguing puzzle is set by the Lincoln register of Thomas Bek in which many of the commissions to receive purgations are followed by a space in which the report of the result was to be entered.

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